A critical examination of Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” speech, arguing that it concerns the ethics of revenge rather than suicide, and exploring whether it is a genuine soliloquy or a performance for hidden listeners.
A technical companion to the video analysis: how Shelley constructed “Ode to the West Wind” using the ode form, sonnet cycle structure, and terza rima, with discussion questions.
A combined reading and analysis of the opening eighteen lines of Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, examining the seasonal imagery, the pilgrimage context, and Chaucer’s use of irony.
An analysis of Hamlet’s To Be or Not to Be soliloquy, focusing on its ethical arguments about revenge, mortality, and the paralysis of indecision.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, including readings, analysis, and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, including a combined reading and analysis, a standalone analysis, and a plain reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s To Autumn, including a combined reading and analysis, a standalone analysis, and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, including a combined reading and analysis and an illustrated reading.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Keats’s Odes, covering the Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn.
A reading of the opening eighteen lines of Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the celebrated seasonal description that sets the scene for the pilgrimage to Canterbury.